Johnny Tremain
Important Quotations Explained
3. “Friends!
Brethren! Countrymen! That worst of Plagues, the detested tea shipped
for this Port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the Harbour:
the hour of destruction, of manly opposition to the machinations
of Tyranny, stares you in the face.”
4. “There
shall be no more tyranny. A handful of men cannot seize power over
thousands. A man shall choose who it is shall rule over him. . .
. We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills . . . we
fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”
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